The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-05
PERSONAL.

Mrs. HENRY WARD BEECHER is said to be rap
idly declining in health.
MANAGING EDITOR JtIIUs CHAMBERS, of the
New York Herald, is still in Paris working and
playing.
EDoUARD DUPONT, director of the Belgian
Royal Museum of Natural History, well known
as geologist, starts shortly for the Congo.
BARONESS BURDETTE- Courts is a large pur-
chaser of American buckwbeat, which is canned
ready for the grddle for the London market.
REV. Mr. Toxic, a Chinese Baptist preacher,
delivers exhortations in front of a large pagan
temple in Chinatown, San Francisco, every Sun
day afternoon.
A SYNDICATE composed of Senator Jones, Mr.
Mackay, Mr. Flood and other California capital
lists has purchased the great tract of land known
as the Mariposa grant
NJ GRAaNoN French Project of Police is going
to Brussels to study the architecture of two or
three new theatres, which are admirably planned
with view to security.
PRINCE BISMARCK g two sons are two of the
hardest workers in Germany. They begin recu-
larry at in the morning and often remain at
their labors until far into the night.
LAWRENCE KLEtBAcKER KETcnUm is probably
the youngest member of press association in
the world. He is months old, and his father
edits the Blount county (Ala) Dispatch
Nh, BELL. owner of the Thistle, says all he and
play in America, and if nc fails to win it will
simply be- because he is unable.
RUSSELL SAGE says that George Gould is the
smarteSt business mau for his years that he ever
met, Mr. Eddy Gould Georges young brother,
haunts the Consolidated Exchange nearly every
day. 1t is said he operates In stocks in ncrvy
way
Il. +, WELLS, an eeronaut, says he il negotiat-
ing with Lucky Baldwin to secure his aid in
building great air-shp, in which he declares
he can circuinnavigate the globe in thirty days.
Baldwin, he says, Is regarding the project with
some favor.
GIN. DAVID HuNrEE STRoruER. Porte Cray
on, is li:ing quietly near Berkeley Springs, Va
He Is now little morn than 20 years old. Il
weigh 100 pounds, lac say x; walk my five miles
without fatigue, and am not conscious OF any
pains, aches or diScomforts Whatsoever
TBs ages, native States and occupations Of
the five Richest iacn in Chicago are: Marshall
Field MASSACHUSETTS, dry goods IS: Philip d.
Arn0ar, New York pork packer, -; Levi T.
Letter, Maryland, dry goods, 81; Samuel w. Al
lerton, New York, live stock, 81; George NJ Pull
man. New York, sleeping cars, j6.
FnANK McGLYNH. a brother of Dr. McGlynn. is
living IN san Francisco, and is firm believer in
the land theories held by his kinslnan. John A.
McGlynn, another brother was the first lie.
corder Ot san Francisco Two Of his Sons are
now living in Slu Francisco. one of them being
n bank clerk, and the other being paymastcr Of
tile san Francisco and North Pacific rarond
WHEN Andrew C. Wheeler "Nym Crynkle.,
testified to John Anderson'S sanity he sad that
Mr.. Anderson told him that Edgar A. Poe came
to his store and got the facts about the disap-
pearanCe of Mary Rogers. before he wrote his
celebrated story Of Marie Roget" Ex-Judge
Curtis asked him If be did not know thas Mr..
Anderson paid Poe 5000 for writing that story.
Mr.; Wheeler said that he had never heard OF il
before.